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Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]
Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 world cinema classic traces the spiritual journey of an aged, irascible professor (Victor Sjöström) uncovering his past and present emotional frailties while on a road trip from his home in […]
Writer-director Anna Muylaert’s funny social drama is a joy throughout. There’s graffiti on a wall just down the road form the cinema where I saw The Second Mother. It says something profoundly banal and banally profound: […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 classic novel is rather flat, un-dynamic and un-vibrant. Although the film is highly polished and has several redeeming features, including Charlotte Gainsbourg’s stellar performance as Jane […]
Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Bela Lugosi raise the hairs on the back of the neck in the spooky and amusing 1941 comedy-mystery horror movie The Black Cat. Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi and […]
Bathsheba Everdene is in love with three blokes – well, sort of, and can’t make up her mid about which one, if any she fancies settling down with, Far from the Madding Crowd in Dorset. It’s the […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s seventh movie The Farmer’s Wife is this modestly engaging 1928 silent romantic comedy film of the Eden Phillpotts hit stage play about grumpy widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who seeks a new […]